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Health & Wellness
How to slow skin ageing? Don’t smoke, says expert. Plus other tips
Lines write the story of your life on your face, starting from about the age of 25. But there are steps you can take to limit their spread.
13 Oct 2024 - 5:15PM
Americans suing for right to buy Hermès Birkin bags file new claims
15 Oct 2024 - 10:15AM
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Corsets made from airbags? Fashion designers upcycle car parts
15 Oct 2024 - 5:09AM
Fashion & Beauty
How Kojima, Japan, made a name for top-quality denim
Hand-dyed denim and vintage machines are used to make jeans that sell for up to US$1,400 a pair in town where even the roads are denim blue.
6 Oct 2024 - 4:15AM
A seamstress at Momotaro Jeans makes jeans using a vintage sewing machine. Photo: AP
Travel & Leisure
How do you revive in-store shopping? Look to TX Huaihai in Shanghai
Former department store reopens as a showcase for hip fashion e-commerce businesses, with nightclubs, restaurants, and exhibition spaces.
6 Oct 2024 - 4:35PM
Entertainment
Drug lord El Chapo’s lawyer Mariel Colon is now a singer. Yes, really
Colon is using her notoriety and connection to the drug trafficking world to launch a music career. She denies she is glorifying crime.
5 Oct 2024 - 5:15PM
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Health & Wellness
This 54-year-old has no secrets to ageing well, beyond self-love
After years of being self-conscious, it clicked: ‘This is my body, I want to respect it,’ says Ting Ma, who posts about ageing and self-love.
5 Oct 2024 - 7:56AM
Arts & Culture
Inuit facial tattoos return as Greenland’s women go back to their roots
Inuit facial tattoos are becoming more popular among Greenlandic women in what many see as a reappropriation of their culture and heritage.
26 Sep 2024 - 4:15AM
A Greenland artist, Paninnguaq, sports Inuit facial tattoos. Photo: Instagram/@faces_of_greenland
Entertainment
5 of the best things to do this weekend in Hong Kong, October 18-20
From the Hong Kong Ballet to the Asian Film Festival and World Shochu and Awamori Festival, our pick of the best things to do this weekend.
18 Oct 2024 - 4:09PM
Fashion & Beauty
5 can’t-miss shopping opportunities in Hong Kong this weekend, Oct 18-21
Get your hands on a Crocs collaboration collection before it sells out, personalised sneakers and comfy Skims menswear this weekend.
18 Oct 2024 - 1:16PM
Fashion & Beauty
The ‘shame’ of luxury goods made in Italy on the back of suffering
LVMH’s Dior and Giorgio Armani are among luxury brands exposed over sweatshop-like conditions for migrant workers in Italian workshops.
21 Sep 2024 - 8:07AM
Fashion & Beauty
Designs of the times – 3 new-generation Hong Kong tattoo parlours
Tattoos in Hong Kong were once the province of triads and Western sailors. Today skin art is a form of artistic expression and widely seen. We talk to some of the artists creating it.
17 Sep 2024 - 7:30AM
Co-owners of Star Crossed Tattoo Megan Lancaster (in white) and Rika Korponay at their studio in Wan Chai. We visit three prominent tattoo parlours ahead of this year’s Hong Kong China International Tattoo Exhibition, from October 4 to 6. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
Health & Wellness
Journaling helps release negative thoughts and emotions. Simone Biles knows
Simone Biles keeps a ‘worry journal’, Gigi Hadid a ‘bad journal’, to ease anxiety. Journaling can help put life’s challenges in perspective.
20 Sep 2024 - 10:33AM
Arts & Culture
5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, October 11-13
Try Korean hanwoo beef at a new noodle restaurant, see an anime master’s latest film, pamper your pet or do some outdoor yoga this weekend.
11 Oct 2024 - 3:21PM
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Fashion & Beauty
5 shopping opportunities in Hong Kong this weekend, October 11-13
Pet pampering, picnicking and period underwear are a click away this weekend in Hong Kong, and see a luxury-meets-athleisure sneaker collab.
11 Oct 2024 - 1:12PM
Fashion & Beauty
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Hong Kong designer fashions leather jacket from old sofa, and wins award
Hong Kong’s Tiger Chung made a leather jacket with material sourced from a discarded couch as part of a collection that won the 2024 Redress Design Award that rewards sustainable fashion.
11 Sep 2024 - 11:15AM
Hong Kong fashion designer Tiger Chung made a leather jacket with material sourced from a discarded couch as part of a collection that won the 2024 Redress Design Award, which champions sustainability. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Fashion & Beauty
The must-have souvenir from Japan? Convenience store socks. Yes, really
Japanese convenience stores FamilyMart, 7-Eleven and Lawson are becoming a must-visit for tourists, not just for their staggering food selections but for their fashion lines, especially socks.
5 Sep 2024 - 5:15PM
Fashion & Beauty
Why K-pop idols and luxury fashion are a marriage made in heaven
Tommy Hilfiger’s Met Gala collab with boy band Stray Kids is a reminder of the growing attachment between luxury fashion and K-pop stars.
12 Sep 2024 - 5:04AM
Health & Wellness
5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, October 4-6
Fine Art Asia is back with a contemporary design focus, you can explore sound healing and learn about a made-to-order handbag brand.
4 Oct 2024 - 7:43PM
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Fashion & Beauty
5 must-shop events in Hong Kong and Shenzhen this weekend, October 4-6
Hello Kitty celebrates 50 years with a Hong Kong collaboration and a Korean eyewear brand spins an epic sci-fi tale in Shenzhen this weekend.
4 Oct 2024 - 12:15PM
Hello Kitty toys at an exhibition in London in January, 2024. Hello Kitty celebrates 50 years with a Hong Kong collaboration this weekend. Photo: EPA-EFE
Arts & Culture
5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, September 27-29
There is plenty to pack into your schedules this weekend, from a charity market raising funds for dogs to a vegan cheese-making workshop.
27 Sep 2024 - 4:15PM
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Fashion & Beauty
5 must-shop events in Hong Kong and Macau this weekend, September 27-29
Pink collectibles to raise awareness of breast cancer, a market to support a dog charity are among the shopping highlights this weekend.
27 Sep 2024 - 3:18PM
Food & Drink
Yoshinoya to grow ostrich rice bowl sales by selling more ostrich skincare
Fast food chain’s skincare subsidiary farms ostriches for beauty products, while it uses their meat. Yoshinoya aims to expand sales of both.
18 Sep 2024 - 11:15AM
OPINION
Lisa Lim
Language Matters
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Where did jeans and denim come from? The clues are in the names
30 Apr 2024 - 7:45AM
Lisa Lim
Language Matters
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Purple’s roots, from sea snails to Caesar to its association with grandeur
30 Mar 2024 - 2:15PM
Wee Kek Koon
Reflections
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Laminated brow trend has got nothing on eyebrow styles of ancient China
17 Mar 2024 - 8:15AM
Jason Wordie
Then & Now
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Avoid the Pooh: when funny T-shirts and slogans are no longer amusing
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Language Matters
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Are we reading too much into Taylor Swift’s graphic tees? Maybe, maybe not
14 Mar 2024 - 7:07PM
Wee Kek Koon
Reflections
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How perfume came to China from ancient Persia, then the know-how to make it
28 Jan 2024 - 8:15AM
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